Chapter 373 Rat Spots
Chapter 373 Rat Spots
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei released the fishing line in his hand and found that the big fish under the water suddenly stopped moving. "Brother, it might be a tiger eel, not a big fish. I feel like it has drilled into the cracks of the reef and stopped moving."
"There are reefs below, maybe there is a big tiger eel. Don't worry, the fishhook is hanging, it will eventually come out of the hole."
Chen Yongwei nodded, "The one that pulled me just now probably weighed more than ten kilograms!"
"One pound of fish equals ten pounds of strength!" Li Changle stood up in response, "Wait for it to come out, I've got a fish here, too!"
"oh oh!"
As soon as Li Changle pulled the fishing line, he felt the fish diving under the water. He quickly stabilized his body, tightly grasped the fishing line in his hand, and pulled the line hard to stab the fish. "Haha, this one of mine is also a big one!"
"I couldn't hold it in any longer, so I crawled out of the hole."
"The wind is strong, we must stand firm, otherwise we will become fish food if we fail to pull up the fish!"
"Puh, puh, puh!" Chen Yongwei spat several times in a row, "No wonder Big Brother scolded you, why don't you just say, let's have a threesome and pull up the fish together?"
"Fuck! You even learned how to do a threesome. Do you know what a threesome means?"
"Isn't it just that you pull one and I pull one, and we pull up two fish together?"
“…You can calculate it that way!”
Li Changle tightly grasped the fishing line and slowly slid the big fish along. The fish below was also struggling with him. Before he had pulled for long, his hand was hurt by the fishing line. He also pulled the fish out of the water, but before he could see clearly what it was, it sank again.
"Brother, it looks like rat spots!" said Chen Yongwei who was standing a little ahead.
"The sharp-mouthed dog is not bad either!" As he spoke, Li Changle pulled the fish up.
The mouse grouper is a fish of the genus Humpback perch in the family Serranidae, also known as blue grouper, croaker, and humpback perch. The fish body is cream-colored with black spots all over the body, the meat is tender and the taste is particularly delicious.
It gets its name because it has a long head and a pointed snout, which is somewhat similar to a mouse.
Chen Yongwei took advantage of the fish's hiding time and picked up the landing net on the ground to catch it. "Brother, it's really a rat spot."
Li Changle put down the fishing reel and picked up the scoop net. "It's about six or seven pounds. Haha, the first sharp-mouthed dog is a big deal!"
Chen Yongwei grabbed the fishing line and said, "You have pulled up all the rat groupers here, but the one I pulled up is lying still again."
"Take your time!" Li Changle proudly took the bait and hung it up. After throwing the hook into the water, he suddenly found that there was a drizzle in the sky, "Oh no, it's raining!"
"What's a little drizzle to worry about!" Chen Yongwei pulled the fish out of the water in one go and said with a happy smile, "Brother, a big tiger eel."
"Kill it!" Li Changle quickly picked up the scoop net and caught the tiger eel that kept curling up. The net bag sank down and he quickly gripped the handle. "It's about 15 or 16 pounds. Take out a net bag to put it in."
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei took out a net bag from his trouser pocket, put the exhausted tiger eels in it, and put it in the bucket.
"This is a great spot!" Chen Yongwei exclaimed. "Brother, we should have kept a small boat. On a day like this, we could have sailed here to longline fish."
"You are getting more and more courageous now, look at this big wave, and you still dare to go fishing in a boat. I will scold you to death."
Li Changle looked at the time again and realized it was already ten o'clock. "We have two big fish. Let's catch one more hook and go back. It's raining. Your sister-in-law should come out to pick us up."
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In Nanshanao, Li Xiaoqing and Li Xiaohui had finished their homework long ago and took Li Xiaomei, Grandma Chen, Li's father and Li's mother back to the old house.
Li Xiaotao and Li Xiaobo revised it several times, and after giving it to Zhou Ruonan for correction, it barely passed. The two played marbles for a while, and now they fell asleep on the table.
Li Xiaoyang was the only one left scratching his head. Zhou Ruonan explained it to him several times, but he still got two questions wrong in the end.
Li Xiaoyang scratched his head with his hands stained with blue ink and felt that studying was much more difficult than fishing in the sea.
"Aunt, I really can't think of it. Can we try again tomorrow?"
Zhou Ruonan looked at the time and said, "We can do it tomorrow. It's raining now. We agreed to go to the beach to watch the fishing. Let's do it after you finish it tomorrow!"
"Ah~" Li Xiaoyang scratched his head in pain, regretting what he said just now. He nodded in frustration, "Oh! You go to sleep first, I'll clean up here."
"There's hot water in the pot. Go wash up and then come back to the house." Zhou Ruonan patted Li Xiaotao and Li Xiaobo, "Go wash up and go back to the house to sleep."
Li Xiaobo wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and said, "Brother, are you done?"
Li Xiaotao blinked and asked, "Brother, can we go to the beach now?"
Li Xiaoyang hurriedly winked at the two sleepy-eyed people and said, "Hurry up and wash your face with a towel."
Zhou Ruonan, who was standing in front of the stove and scooping hot water for the three people, did not notice the three people's little movements. After filling the water, he added a few more scoops of water in it, and went to the stove and stuffed a handful of firewood into it.
Turning around, he saw three people standing there with handkerchiefs in their hands, and said with a smile, "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and take them over to wash them, and go to bed."
"Aunt, we can do it ourselves." Li Xiaoyang patted Li Xiaotao, and the two of them carried the hot water and walked outside. Zhou Ruonan saw them washing their faces and feet, so she turned back to clean the area in front of the stove, packed up her textbooks and went back to her room.
The three people in the cabin saw her return to the house, bent down and went back to the kitchen, took a flashlight, took down the raincoat hanging on the wall, rolled it up, hugged it in their arms, and ran out.
Zhou Ruonan put away the textbooks and saw her two sons with bulging bellies and red faces from sleep. She pulled the thin blanket over to cover them, took her raincoat, turned off the light, opened the door, and saw Li Xiaoyang and the other two holding flashlights, already walking outside the Jin family's house.
"You naughty fellow!"
She smiled and shook her head, locked the kitchen door, took a flashlight and looked around the construction site, untied the dog leash tied to Dahuang, rubbed Dahuang's furry head, and said, "Take good care of the house. I'll go to the beach and come back."
The big yellow dog followed her to the intersection with a smile on his face, wagging his big furry tail, and then went back to his kennel and lay down.
Before Zhou Ruonan even reached the beach, she saw Sister Li holding Li Xiaoyang and the other two walking towards them, "Sister, it's raining, aren't they planning to collect the nets yet?"
"Ale has gone fishing on the rocks. We plan to fish for a while longer and come back when the tide goes out." Mrs. Li slapped Li Xiaoyang and the other two in annoyance and said, "Go home and sleep quickly."
"Oh!" Li Xiaoyang lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Zhou Ruonan. He took a flashlight and walked back with his two younger brothers.
Li Xiaotao rubbed his butt that had been slapped twice, "Brother, I told you that you would definitely get scolded if you came to the beach at this time, but you didn't believe it!"
"I'm just a hindsighter. You just ran faster than a rabbit!" Li Xiaoyang gave him a sidelong glance and said, "Don't follow me anymore."
Li Xiaobo hurriedly pulled him back, "Brother, I didn't say anything!"
Li Xiaotao saw this and said hurriedly: "Brother, I'm just saying, I don't blame you."
Zhou Ruonan and Li Dasao looked at each other and shook their heads in amusement. After the children walked away, she said to Li Dasao, "The wind and waves are so strong and it's raining. I'll give the raincoat to Ah Le."
"I'll go with you." Mrs. Li walked with her. "There are still so many dried fish heads at home that haven't been dried. I'm worried that this rain will last for several days."
"No, I heard the weather forecast at school today. It will be cloudy tomorrow, with winds of force 7 or 8 offshore and force 9 in some parts of the sea."
"That's good. There are still a few large yellow croakers in the big tank that have not been taken out to dry. If it continues to rain like this for a few days, it will be bad."
"Once the warehouse is built and the blower is installed, we won't have to worry about it even if it rains."
Mrs. Li nodded and said, "Anan, can my Xiaoyang get into junior high school with his grades?"
"There is still hope if you work harder." Zhou Ruonan said with a smile, "Xiaoyang is smart, but he just doesn't focus on studying."
Mrs. Li said angrily, "That little bastard, he just wants to carry a bucket and walk around the beach every day. Even when he falls asleep at night, he dreams about catching sand slugs and clams. It's strange that he can get good grades!"
Zhou Ruonan thought about it and it was true. Just as she was about to speak, she saw a flashlight shining in front of her, "They are coming."
"Why are you here?" Li Changle asked after taking a few quick steps.
"Anan is worried, so I brought you some raincoats." Mrs. Li looked at the bucket he was carrying with a smile, "Did you catch anything big?"
Li Changle put down the bucket with a smile, "A grouper, a tiger eel, three black rock bass, and a sea bream."
"Wow! We caught so much in just two hours!" Mrs. Li picked up the bucket and Zhou Ruonan quickly handed the raincoats to the two of them. "Your hair is soaked. Put them on quickly."
"Okay!" Li Changle handed one to Chen Yongwei. The two put on raincoats, picked up the buckets and walked towards the big puddle.
When I got to the front of the net, I started to catch fish. I saw fish of all sizes rushing into the net like a tide.
Li Changle uncovered the bamboo basket covered with torn cotton wool, which was already half filled with hairtail fish. The silver scales shone brightly under the headlights.
He proudly picked up a large hairtail fish and looked at Zhou Ruonan with a smile, "Look, Nan, this hairtail fish is so good."
"I'll give it to my sister to sell tomorrow!" Zhou Ruonan said as she opened several other bamboo baskets and saw that they were all filled with sea knife fish, followed by green croaker, yellow croaker, swordfish, and hairtail.
"Brother, the rain is getting heavier. Should we pack up the nets and go home?"
"Just wait for another hour or so and the tide will go out. We'll leave when the tide goes out."
It was the first time that Zhou Ruonan saw so many fish, and she threw herself into the net without hesitation. "A Le, as long as the light is on, will they keep swimming towards the net?"
"When we're on the boat, they'll leave when it gets light, and the same thing happens at the beach, as long as we follow the tide, they'll swim towards where the lights are."
"A Le, the rain is getting heavy, why don't you collect your nets and go home?" The Jin family father and son came over carrying their fishing gear.
Li Changle smiled and said, "Wait until the tide recedes before returning."
Old Man Jin put down the scoop net, came to the bucket, and said to Jin Hui, "Look, we came earlier than them, and we have only caught 80 or 90 kilograms so far, but they have caught so much."
Jin Hui stared at the fish in the net in amazement, "Wow, why are there so many?"
Old Man Jin smiled and said, "A lot! Learn from Ah Le in the future!"
(End of this chapter)